A red-faced, angry boss, is a fate worse than death, and something you can face if your business’s online sales figures have recently plummeted. Not something that is very good for your stress levels, or an experience you want to be confronted with at your next sales meeting, I’m sure. So, why not get the jump on this and use the simple strategies below to boost sales, and save you from a such a foul fate.

Analytics

Analytics come in the form of statistical information about who is seeing your site, adverts, and marketing materials. As well as the actions visitors perform in relation to these. That makes them useful in increasing your sales because they show you which elements of your marketing campaign and website are strong and working well, as which are not.

With analytics, you can see where potential customers are leaving your site (bouncing), or are not engaging sufficiently with the content you have provided. This, in turn, allows you to inform your campaign and altered it, so it is more specialized and effective. Something that can help you increase sales by appealing to the right people in the right way.

Multi-media platforms

Another simple sales boosting strategy is to change the platform that your advertising and marketing is being released on. This is because too many online companies are still focused on the more traditional forms of written content displayed on web pages. While the audience they are trying to reach is busy being permanently attached to their smartphones. Things that are capable of being so much more than just a web browser.

It’s not that written content is redundant, far from it. It still has a place in helping to boost sales. It’s just that other avenues need to be explored as well, to be as effective as possible. We are talking here about video content, podcasts, webinars, and infographics. All punchy, yet simple ways of engaging your customers and getting the product in front of them in order for them to buy it. So, must target the right platforms, and include multimedia content that users of those platforms expect to stay relevant to boost sales.

SEO

SEO is the all about where your company’s site places in the rank of the search engine used to look for it online. The higher up, the better. As these are the sites that get more traffic, and so more opportunities to convert visits into actual sales. That means good SEO is vital for good sales, but if you think you have it sorted because you have a few keywords thrown into the body text of your website you are much mistaken.

In fact, SEO is quite a complicated thing, causing many businesses to consult with professionals to maximize their effectiveness in this area. Even if you choose to seek help, you will need to grasp the difference between on-site and off-site SEO, how to get better natural rankings, and how the latest Google updates affect all of this. As these will allow you to continuously alter your site and content to get the best more hits, and more hits help to make more sales.

Although, it is worth bearing in mind that site visitors or hits can only help you so much. Especially if your site isn’t optimized to convert those hits into actual leads and sales.

To do this, you will first need a clear, user-friendly site, with pleasing visuals. You will also need to employ strategies like funneling, calls to action, and special offers to get people to make their purchase then and there during their visit.

Funneling is where the site is constructed in such a manner that it leads potential customers to purchase opportunities, or at the very least it allows their details to be captured. So they can then be utilized as warm lead at a later date. As warm leads have a much better chance of being converted into a sale because someone has already shown interest in the product.

Calls to action can help you convert site visits to actual sales if they motivate the customer to complete their purchase. The language used around these is imperative though. As it must convey urgency and positivity to be effective.

Something else that is useful is the technique of offering limited time discounts. As these make purchasing the product now more appealing, and waiting to buy less so. As the extra products or money off will no longer be available. Something that can help to convince your customers to buy more, and so making it a great method of boosting your online sales.